Four plus three from Poland

Submission for passports

Loaded up all seven kids this morning and headed into downtown Warsaw...picture the scene from Home Alone with everyone running around kind of crazy...that was us.  The GPS said 35 minutes to get there but with all the traffic (picture Hwy 280 in Birmingham at 5 PM at Christmas time) it took us an hour to arrive.  Thankfully we had planned it would take us 10 minutes just to load up in the van and an hour to get there so we arrived right on time...whew!!  We found the building and found a sign that looked like "Passports" and headed in.  We were waiting on Sasha so I walked outside to see if I could find a bathroom.  Thankfully, I then realized that one to those hidden parking meters was on the street where we parked.  With some help from a homeless person that actually could read the parking meter instructions, I was able to get a receipt and place it in our van window...whew, again.   Homeless person received a nice tip and gave me a big smile.  We then headed to the meeting and we were able to sit as Sasha and Alex worked everything out with the administrator.  Our kids had the whole office laughing by the time we left.  Thankfully, she said she would do her best to get the passports released to us tomorrow...not for sure but maybe. 

Tomorrow, we have our interview at the U.S. Embassy for our visas.  So if everything works out right, we may have our passports and visas on Monday.  Then we could fly out Tuesday or Wednesday.

I see a light at this end of this long adventure.